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JOHN CARL-IN, OF YORK, Y. Letters Patent No. 85,281, dated December 29, 1868.

GAME, CALLED VIN'C.

i The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the sam-e.

To alt whom 'it may concern.-

Be it known that I,-Jon1v OARLIN, of New York in the county of New York, and State of New York, have invented a new ,Gamawhich I have named Vinco; and 'I dolhereby dclarethat the followingis a full and exact description thereof, reference being'had to the accompanying drawing and letters.

-The nature of the game of vinco is, that It consists of a board, similar to the chess-hoard in size and materiahthe whole ground of which is of a uniform color,and is divided, by straight lines of Ia color Y different from that ofthe ground, perpendicularlyinto' live equal parts, andholizontally into seven equal parts,

thus making thirty-five squares, and is transversed by another line of any color, but not of that of the ground, from the middle square, marked with a circle, 'in the lowest division of the ground-beingfthe seventhfrom the tcp side-through the second square, on the left side, in the sixthdivision; through the two first squares in .the fth and fourth divisions; the second square. in the third division; the third square in the second division; the foin-th square in the third division; the fifth square in the fourth division; 'the fourth square in the fth division, and the third square in the fourth division, being the centre ofthe ground, marked with a castle, This transverse line is dotted with small circles in the centres of the squares through which it runs; and, in Y order not to confound them with the large circle in the seventh division, they are calledA stones And that it consists of one king, occupying the circle' square thr captains, standin g onthe two first squares, marked C, i the fifth' andseventh divisions, and the'. iifth square, marked O, in the sixth division; eleven guards, in the whole fifth, sixth, and seventh divisions. The captains and guards constitute the kings army.

All the guards are painted on one side in one color, different from that of the other side.

And of one opposing general, taking his stand on the middle square, marked O Gr, in the rst division; andhis aid, one in number, on the second square, marked A, in the iirst diyision. The opposing general and aid are painted all over in any color, but not in that of the guards7 painted side's.

The object of the game is, that the king,.protected by his captains and guards, endeavors to capture the castlessquare. His success decides the game in his favor. y

The opposing general and his aid come to oppose and drive the king back to his original square in order to secure their victory.

Themovements are as follows: v

The king, leaving the circle-square, moves, one square only, forward along the transverse line, stopping at each stone, till vhe reaches the castle. He is Anot allowed to leave the transverse line, except intaking either of. his opponents in any square adjoining the square on which he rests, after which deed he returns to the same stone. When the king is checked, and'the line is found open to thel castle, he can move forward thither, and is safe thereat, and therefore victorious, even if he is still checked.

the 'line rests,

The captains move, one square only, perpendicularly, horizontally, or diagonally, to any of all the squares around them; and

The guards move, one square only, diagonally and forward. On arriving at the squares next to the ones tlansversed, by the line, they are 'turned to their colored sides, and move downwards till they reach the ho1fizontal(ifth) division, in which the last elbow of and, turning their sides again, move upwards.'

The guard, happening to -be on the square directly under the O G square, must ascend perpendicularly thither, instead of diagonally to eitheir square next to th'e O G square, and, on his turned side, descend diagonally; and the opposing general moves peipendicularly, horizontally, or. .diagonally to' any square at any distance, and has the power to take his opponents, except the king, within the direct line of his sight, at his option; and the aid, perpendicular-ly and horizontally only, to all distances, and has the same power at his option.v

The captains and guards have the power to take their opponents within their reach, at their optionthe guards diagonally in front, and the captains ou any squaresnextwto theirs.

The captains protect each other, the king and guards, on all the squares around them; and the guards ofthe blank side, in their upward progress, protect their king, captains, and comrades, bothof the blank and colored sides, diagonally in front, but they cannot' give protection to any of them in the rear; and the guards of the colored sides, going downwards, do inlke manner.

When the king ischecked by the opposing generalor aid, unless protection be given to him by any of his men, he must beat a retreat from the stone at which h'ercsts along the line, without stopping at the stones vwithin the opponcnts sight, .and turn round the? elbow in order to get himself out of the opponents sight. Driven to the first out-of-sight stone on the next line, the king'can proceed again up in his object of capturing the castle; but when any stone ou the line within the opponents sight is found already occupied, the king, unable to retreat or continue his retrograding course, surrenders, thus giving the -palm of victoryto his conqueror.

In case of the king being checked, and seeing the line in front of him open to the first stone on the next line, he can move forward, without stopping at the intervening stones;

The king, being the aggressor, must begin the game.

No mistake-s, made through either carelessness or v misjudgment, lcan be corrected by substituting moves. What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The arrangement of a new game, as is fully explained in the above. q

` JOHN GARLLN. Witnesses;

T. J. WRITING XVM, II. Rien-nr. 

